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U.S. Senator from Arizona, Democrat, involved in crypto-related legislation including Senate negotiations over the Clarity Act.
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The Coinbase CEO says the Wall Street Journal is preparing to blame him for the CLARITY Act's Senate defeat, and he has put his own account of January on the record while the SEC and CFTC say they will write crypto's rules themselves.
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The Senate voted 50-49 against the Clarity Act on September 15, so the federal digital-asset framework stays unwritten. The fight that sank it was over ethics language tied to the president's own crypto holdings.
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Mike Johnson said Congress would vote tomorrow if it had the solution. He is still sending the House home after this week until after the November elections. He proposed a meeting of chief executives instead.
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The Speaker rejected a national moratorium on AI buildout and said developers bear responsibility for safety. Two pollsters put opposition to data centers near respondents at 69% and 70%, and forecasters expect the midterms to cost him the gavel.
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The new text defines a non-decentralized trading protocol by who can alter it, then leaves registration, conduct and Bank Secrecy Act questions to rules three agencies have not written. A procedural vote is set for Sept. 15.
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Patrick Witt wants Democrats on the market structure bill by Sept. 15, and the fallback he describes if they refuse is rulemaking bounded by the authority the SEC and CFTC already have, an approach that depends on agency leadership the White House has not yet named.
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More than $200 million of 2024 political spending bought accommodating regulators rather than a statute, and a Sept. 15 procedural vote is what now separates the industry from two more years of interpretive guidance.
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US debt crossed $40 trillion and the interest bill now tops Medicare. The buyback that helped move gold and bitcoin was $4 billion, or one hundredth of one percent of the stock.
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The SEC proposed exempt-offering caps, the CFTC threatened to write its own regime, and Trump asked for a Clarity Act he can sign. The US rulebook gets drafted either way.
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